Saturday, August 20, 2016

Our garden was a bit hit or miss this year. But we have corn, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peas, beets, cabbage, and lots! of tomatoes.

Today I cooked about eight pie-pumpkins, a half dozen butternut squash, and a dozen ears of corn to put up in the freezer.

The animals have loved munching on the husks, skins, and seeds as I worked through our bounty.

I imagined how it must have been generations ago as wives put up their vegetables for the fall and winter. My grandmother and great-grandmother worked side by side on the farm filling their pantries with the colors of summer.

I never had that privilege as great-grandma died when I was almost four and I never understood the blessing of my gentle grandma in the kitchen until I was a mother on my own a thousand miles away.

So here's to the women who helped feed their families so many years ago and to the ones who continue to do the work today.